Monday, August 15, 2011

GALWAY: August Over The Edge Open Reading

The Featured Readers are Laurie Leech, Evelyn Parsons and Clare Pollard. The reading is sponsored by Poetry Ireland. The evening
will also see the announcement of the shortlist in this year’s Over The Edge
New Writer of The Year competition.

Laurie Leech is a Galway-based poet. He is
MC of the Testify! nights in Róisín Dubh, showcasing poets, musicians and
anything else in between. Formerly MC of Poetry Smackdown, which was featured
on RTE’s Arena. He took 2nd place in the 2011 Cúirt Poetry Grand Slam and 1st
place in the 2011 Drogheda Fringe Poetry Slam. He puts his words to music
sometimes and shared a bill with Buck 65, also during Cúirt 2011.

Evelyn Parsons says that she “stumbled down
a creative writing shaped rabbit hole in 2010, landing heart first in a fiction
wonderland of classes with Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars.” She was
highly commended in the 2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition
and short-listed for the 2011 Fish One Page Prize. Evelyn is also an avid reader
and a member of the Ballinasloe Booksuckers Club.

Clare Pollard has published four
collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books, the most recent of which, Changeling,
was published in June of this year. Her play The Weather (Faber, 2004)
premiered at the Royal Court Theatre and has been performed at the Munchner
Kammerspiele in Munich. Clare was Assistant Director of the Clerkenwell
Literary Festival from 2002-5. She has scripted and presented two documentaries
for televison, and her documentary for radio, My Male Muse, was a Radio 4
Pick of the year. Her short stories have been published in The Idler and the
anthology Comma (Comma Press, 2002). She recently co-edited the Bloodaxe
anthology Voice Recognition: 21 poets for the 21st Century. Clare is
currently teaching for The City Lit, The Poetry School and the Arvon
Foundation. This is Clare’s first time reading in Ireland.

There will be an open-mic when the Featured
Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share.
New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan
Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748 or see our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway
City Council and The Arts Council

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